Grooveshark

Grooveshark is the an online music community that allows users to download mp3s and receive compensation for sharing songs in a legal network. Grooveshark aims to be the first legal alternative to illegal networks that matches and exceeds the experience provided by illegal networks through the addition of music discovery, social networking, and free-full length streaming.

And well getting paid for sharing music sounds pretty awesome to me. And finding music off other users that I forgot about is also pretty awesome.

And believe it or not, they didn’t pay us to review their site. We just really love it!

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We love I love Typography

At a little more than two months old, I Love Typography, has developed a cult following of over 5,000 subscribers, and confirmed the fact that quality content and design yield monstrous results. Created and written by John Boardley, a designer/typoholic based in Japan, I Love Typography is a surprisingly phenomenal site suited for anyone, whether you’ve only dipped your toe in design, or enjoy analyzing the typography on your potato chip bag. I.L.T. is one of our favourite sites and we love it!

Click here to visit this site.

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We love mint

For those of you who that payed attention to TechCrunch 20 40, mint needs no introduction. mint walked away with the $50,000 prize and a boat load of publicity producing enough traffic to make their servers beg for mercy. With everything back up and running, I signed up for an account and gave it a test run. Despite all the buzz and hype I have to say I’m still very impressed.

Keep reading…

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We love Snipshot

You’re away from your office or at a meeting. You need to crop an image for a presentation, or your exclusive blog post that Arrington will envy. All you have is a simple computer, and nowhere near enough time or patience to install a Photoshop trial. What do you do?

You could play around in MS Paint, hoping that your image is within a few hundred pixels of size as to what you were after.

Or, you could visit Snipshot, the only free, simple, online, cropping tool I’ve ever seen that allows you to perform precise resizing.

From a creative that’s been stuck in his client’s office many times with an image editing app nowhere in sight, Snipshot has been godsend on many occasions.

Add this goody to your bookmarks for the time’s you’re stuck with your friend or client’s crappy computer and have a naked blog post begging for an image.

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We love Retail Me Not

All too often, usually right before we hit the “pay now” button, we find ourselves ransacking search engines hoping to find a coupon code saving us a few bones on that Threadless T, order of biz cards, domain name, or Text Link Ad. It’s usually hit and miss, and often times the search engines aren’t as relevant as we’d like.

Enter RetailMeNot. The search doesn’t get any easier, just type in the URL of the store you’re shopping at and boom, a list of all known codes and their success rate. Saving a $1.32 just got a whole lot easier.

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Freelance Switch by Eden.cc

FreelanceSwitch is a great site not just for the content but for the story behind it. The creative company behind FreelanceSwitch is Eden.cc and behind the company are some good friends of mine. They are a great inspiration story for other internet entrepreneurs out there.

I originally “met” Collis of Eden.cc when he was still Collis of Good Creative, a top Australian Design Firm. It wasn’t all that long ago that they launched their first internet project FlashDen.net, but they’ve now closed the doors on their Design Firm and are now only producing their own sites.

FreelanceSwitch has done amazingly well since it’s launch only a few weeks ago. In just a short time they’ve built their feed count up to almost 8,000 readers! This quick rise to success can be attributed to the team of people at Eden who definitely understand what a good looking site is and know how to create useful and engaging content.

So I’m recommending this blog to you as not only a place for useful information, but also for people to watch.

Disclosure: This is an unpaid endorsement of FreelanceSwitch & Eden.cc. I have done partnerships with Eden.cc and am a sometimes guest blogger.

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